Technophobia, siblings, and dogs

           My sister is a technophobe—oh! Such a technophobe.  She “hates everything computer”.  How can two siblings be so different?  She watches TV, I play on the computer and don’t care for TV at all.  I do research online, listen to all kinds of health summits, avoid GMO’s, and look for naturopaths, homeopaths, and all kinds of alternative practitioners; she believes everything that MDs tell her.

 

           What life experiences make us so different?  Our environments were similar, our genetic makeup is similar, we both like dogs and horses, have both had several dogs, several horses, yet there our interests diverge.  I love to read, will read anything from poetry to science fiction, to mystery, to the latest research on PUBMED; try (unsuccessfully, btw) to get my head around Donald Hofstadler (Metamagical Themas, Godel, Escher, Bach), and she doesn’t like to even pick up a book. It’s a mystery to me how we could have grown up in the same family! 

 

           Jo dotes on her dogs, especially Jewel.  Both Jewel and Jackson are afraid of my crutches, and come timidly to me only when the offending appliances are well out of the way.  Jackson is a glutton for touch.  He wants to be patted, caressed, and made over.  They are very good watchdogs.  As soon as the sun retires, they are dashing out the dog door to investigate every sound and bark at every movement.  In and out they race Jewel leading the way, barking furiously, Jackson sprinting after her, not to be left behind.  Bark! Bark! Bark!  Run, run, run!  until Jo closes the dog door and sternly tells them it's time to stay in.  

 

          It's so good to be around dogs again!